[Stoves] Food for Africa.

[Carefreeland at aol.com]

Richard, 
    Great web site, and I've only scanned the first  page so far. Their 
principals were built into my concept of a " Carefree  Lnadscape." 30 years 
ago. When Chemlawn was spraying whole lawns with lots of  chemicals, I talked 
to Ohio State people at a recertification seminar about how  I used a hand 
sprayer and just hit the problem spots.
     The next year they started promoting a  program called " IPM" or 
"intigrated pest management". That concept really upset  the chemical industrial 
complex, but it was a great approach to meeting Mother  Nature halfway. A 
lot of PhD''s work on 1000's of plant pests life  cycles, was suddenly 
unleashed from the closets and into the environment.  It was the great awakening of 
the modern farming era. I had heard of the term  Permiculture but didn't 
pay much attention ot it. I guess they have a name for  it all now. I just 
called it the re- search for Shangri- La. 
    The key to getting my idea across, is that I  explained how much money 
and time I was saving over just dumping chemicals  randomly to see what 
worked. I spent the next 30 years learning how not to use  chemicals. I've only 
scratched the surface. 
    
    Dan Dimiduk 
 
    
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/16/2013 9:04:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
rstanley at legacyfound.org writes:

DAn,  
Re intensive agriculture, take a look at this site. Its run by a  (US) 
american Stacia and her Danish hubbie, Kristof,  Nordeen. At  one time they ran 
something called the  Malawi permaculture institute. It  started in their 
backyard when we first saw them in ? 95 but they stuck with  it and they enjoy 
a pretty large network today. As I googled it a few minutes  ago I did not 
find that specific insitute but I did find this with their names  attached:  
 
http://www.neverendingfood.org/about/
What is more important is that the participation amongst Malawians has  
grown immensly…Thats the hard part to establish  and thats what is all  about.


Richard Stanley
_www.legacyfound.org_ (http://www.legacyfound.org/) 





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